Novatech Elite Sentinel Gaming PC Review

3DMark Firestrike

Coming with some fairly beefy hardware specifications, it starts with no surprise to see the Novatech Elite Sentinel near the top of our charts. While the Intel i5 9600k processor does prevent it from competing with the highest-end systems we have reviewed (all of which have either top-end 8th or 9th-gen Intel processors), what’s clearly evident is that it has more than enough grunt to cope with gaming.

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

It’s certainly little surprise that with an Nvidia 2070 ‘Super’ graphics card onboard, this system easily handles the Unigine benchmark test with some very impressive returns.

That little added ‘boost’ in the ‘Super’ series is a nice touch to this system that certainly creeps it up a lot higher in the charts than a standard 2070 would have.

PCMark 10

PCMark 10 acts as a more CPU intensive benchmark and, specifically, the ability to multitask in a ‘day-to-day’ scenario. As can be seen below, the results are very good and perhaps closer to the top than you might have expected.

In all truth, we’re not quite sure why the results are quite this high comparatively (and we tested this twice), but you won’t hear us complaining!

WPrime 32m and 1024m

The WPrime testing is a straight-up brute force examination of how the CPU can handle its workload. Specifically through working out complex mathematical equations.

Being that this system has an Intel i5 9600k processor, it provides some very strong results and finds itself comfortably in the top third of our test result charts.

Cinebench R15

As per the WPrime test, the Cinebench R15 benchmark shows very similar and consistent results. While not the best we’ve seen, these results are still very strong by modern standards and more than a little encouraging.

Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

As we often say during these desktop gaming PC reviews, video editing is likely not going to be your highest priority. At least, not comparatively to gaming. If you do engage in online content creation, however, faster speeds here can really start to make a difference to your overall rendering time. Less time rendering, by proxy, leads to more time in-game or further content creation.

As you can see below, the results for the Novatech Elite Sentinel are really impressive achieving an FPS conversion rate of 71.4. We don’t quite know what Novatech or Intel has done here to get such good results, but all we can say is that they’re welcome to keep it up!